Crossword-Solution: BENUMB
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Benumb | a. | To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. |
We have 47 clues for the answer “BENUMB”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| make numb or powerless | 1 answer |
| Deprive of feeling | 1 answer |
| Popular cooking spray | 2 answers |
| Deaden or dull | 2 answers |
| Chill to the bone | 2 answers |
| Make unfeeling? | 2 answers |
| RENDER senseless | 2 answers |
| Remove feeling from | 2 answers |
| BEDAZE | 3 answers |
| make torpid | 5 answers |
| MAKE insensible | 6 answers |
| MAKE powerless | 6 answers |
| DEPRIVE of sensation | 6 answers |
| Anesthetize. | 8 answers |
| DEADEN, ESPECIALLY BY WRAPPING | 10 answers |
| Bemuse. | 10 answers |
| DEADEN FEELINGS OR MORALS | 11 answers |
| Paralyze | 13 answers |
| Desensitize. | 14 answers |
| Paralyse | 18 answers |
| hypnotise | 23 answers |
| MAKE motionless | 23 answers |
| make inactive | 23 answers |
| make insensitive | 23 answers |
| Petrify | 24 answers |
| MAKE numb | 25 answers |
| desensitise | 30 answers |
| MAKE lifeless | 33 answers |
| DEPRIVE of strength | 35 answers |
| MAKE quiet | 37 answers |
| Visualize | 39 answers |
| Visualise | 40 answers |
| Stupefy | 42 answers |
| Numb | 47 answers |
| Stun | 53 answers |
| Incapacitate | 55 answers |
| disjoint | 61 answers |
| Blunt | 61 answers |
| Deaden | 63 answers |
| Disable | 67 answers |
| Freeze | 69 answers |
| Daze | 75 answers |
| Dream | 78 answers |
| Disturb | 79 answers |
| Sleep __ | 81 answers |
| Confuse | 87 answers |
| Dull | 115 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BENUMB (5)
But there were so many chances against them in all these cases, such as storms, to overset and founder them; rains and cold, to benumb and perish their limbs; contrary winds, to keep them out and starve them; that it must have been next to miraculous if they had escaped.
Yet even these were so vague and unreal that they might have been the mere phantoms of some dream of the half-sleeping passengers; for the thickly-strewn needles of the pine, that choked the way and deadened all sound, yielded under the silently-crushing wheels a faint soporific odor that seemed to benumb their senses, already slipping back into unconsciousness during the long ascent.
These last turn away at the mention of all usages, creeds, institutions of more than a day's standing as a mass of bigotry, superstition, and barbarous ignorance, whose leaden touch would petrify and benumb their quick, mercurial, 'apprehensive, forgetive' faculties.
They have every one of them passions of their own, that rouse and awaken, stupefy and benumb them, without our leave or consent.
That it is so, the cramp-fish has this quality, not only to benumb all the members that touch her, but even through the nets transmit a heavy dulness into the hands of those that move and handle them; nay, it is further said that if one pour water upon her, he will feel this numbness mount up the water to the hand, and stupefy the feeling through the water.
Quotes with BENUMB (1)
Heidegger considers the human condition coldly and announces that existence is humiliated. The only reality is "anxiety" in the whole chain of being. To the man lost in the world and its diversions this anxiety is a brief, fleeting fear. But if that fear becomes conscious of itself, it becomes anguish, the perpetual climate of the lucid man "in whom existence is concentrated." This professor of philosophy writes without trembling and in the most abstract language in the world…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1968–2019).